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Pity the culture snob, as Kindles, iPods, and flash drives swallow up the visible markers of superior taste and intelligence. With the digitization of books, music, and movies, how will the highbrow distinguish him- or herself from the masses?

If we examine the nontrivial-sized DBMS markets, it turns out that current relational DBMSs can be beaten by approximately a factor of 50 in most any market. A good overview of NoSQL alternatives for particular uses.

Faced with the choice of spending time on the elegance of the implementation, or the intuitiveness of the interface, companies will optimize for intuition; open-source projects, for elegance of implementation.

A good overview of current Yahoo! assets. Serves as a reminder that Yahoo! still has plenty of cool, relevant products under its corporate umbrella.

Blogger founder (now Twitter CEO) Evan Williams weighing in to say that Blogger should build a network of networks, point people to good content, get more out of the nav bar, create prettier templates, help people use the layout engine, make posting fast, become the aggregator, put ads in the app interface, and just do something radical.

And how about millions of people screaming in pain who sit in front of their half-dead Windows machines, overloaded with spyware, malware, bloated slow registry and 8174 useless "services" running in background, slowing everything down, showing marketing messages from Logitech and overall ruining their everyday experience? Who's smart enough to solve that mess in 3 months?